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036-000544688 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, 1862-1971

1. IOR/L/PS/10/366

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/366
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 1-2 ‘Persian Gulf: German Competition’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with growing German competition to British trade in the Persian Gulf, and discussions around possible responses from the British authorities to protect Britain's trade and geopolitical interests. In particular, it is concerned with the joint workings of the Hamburg-America ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 May 1912-1 Jun 1916
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/168
Title:
File 252/1910 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Lighting and Buoying; the B.I.S.N. Co's buoyage system taken over by Govt of India'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, reports, plans, photographs, indentures and tables relating to the lighting and buoying of the Persian Gulf. The discussion in the volume relates to the transfer of the responsibility for lighting and buoying from the Briti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1916
Extent:
1 volume (444 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/83/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/83/1
Title:
File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office'
Scope & Content:
Part one of the volume relates to postal services in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is between the Foreign Office, India Office and Government of India. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, is from the General Post Office in London, representatives of Gray, Mackenzie, and Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1905-Jan 1912
Extent:
1 item (91 folios)